30 The Sporting Dog 



A field dog which about this time began to 

 mark the new era was Tammany. He died com- 

 paratively young, but made an impression by his 

 courageous, decisive, and snappy work in the field. 

 Another dog of high class in the field was Van- 

 dervort's Don, an imported son of Price's Bang, 

 whose achievements were chronicled in the 

 Northwest, chiefly on prairie chicken, though he 

 was owned in Pittsburg. 



All this time there had been a good deal of 

 bitterness among the pointer owners on account 

 of what they claimed was discrimination against 

 them in field trials by the judges who were sup- 

 posed to be wedded to the Llewellin setter. There 

 may have been a reason for this grievance, but it 

 is likely that the trouble was with the dogs. At 

 least there was never much more of that talk after 

 Mr. Dexter and Captain McMurdo brought out 

 their field trial pointers. Mainspring, by Salter's 

 Champion Mike out of Romp, was a dog which 

 had all the courage and decision of crack setters, 

 and speed to compete with even the best of them. 

 He and many of his progeny had a little defect of 

 style in hunting with rather low head. Count 

 Fauster, Spring and Castleman's Rex were some 

 of his winning sons. 



King of Kent was a very fast dog of the same 

 dashing and courageous quality. Mainspring's 

 sister, Hops, was brought from Dr. Salter's 



